Screen LibraryImages of empiricism : essays on science and stances, with a reply from Bas C. van Fraassen /
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Series: |
Mind Association occasional series
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http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=abc1357868ad424b84ba1c3268be8cb3 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (x, 390 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780191527388 9780199218844 |
| Index Number: | B816 |
| CLC: | B087 |
| Contents: | The scientific image -- Constructive empiricism and the argument from underdetermination / Maarten Van Dyck -- Why be hanged for even a lamb? / Nancy Cartwright -- The epistemology of constructive empiricism / James Ladyman -- Underdetermination and evidence / Alexander Bird -- An empiricist critique of constructive empiricism : the aim of science / Philip Percival -- Accepting contradictions / Peter Lipton -- Putting a bridle on irrationality : an appraisal of van Fraassen's new epistemology / Stathis Psillos -- The empirical stance -- Taking an empirical stance / Ernan McMullin -- Six degrees of speculation : metaphysics in empirical contexts / Anjan Chakravartty -- The dilemma of empiricist belief / Chad Mohler -- Materialism, stances, and open-mindedness / Michel Bitbol -- Must empiricism be a stance, and could it be one? how to be an empiricist and a philosopher at the same time / Anja Jauernig -- Farewell to empiricism / Dien Ho -- Van Fraassen's reply -- From a view of science to a new empiricism / Bas C. van Fraassen. |